Album by album
COMETS ON FIRE
SELF-RELEASED, 2001
Spontaneous space-rock tear-up thrusts the fledgling band into the vanguard of New Weird America
TIM BUGBEE
Ben Flashman [bass] and I were playing in another group and it was getting a little wibbly-wobbly. I wanted to make a radical reaction to that particular musical predicament, so I said to Ben, “Let’s do a little project where we just blast this thing out – make it really fast and a little bit emotionally violent as an exorcism of this thing that’s bugging us.” We grabbed Chris Gonzales [drums] and went into this garage we were renting as a practice space in Santa Cruz. We basically put the four-track up and blasted through those songs pretty much first or second take, it just magically came together.